There was a tingling pain on his face, and Kong Chen woke up slowly.

The light was a little harsh and vague, and he could vaguely see a man in black in front of him, but he couldn't see his face.

"Awake? When you wake up, tell me who you came to the Cross Slope for? What do you want to do? ”

Shaking his head, his vision gradually cleared.

It was like a forest, and it was still night, by the way, I remember being knocked unconscious, how did I come here.

"Who are you?"

Syllable!

A slap was slapped in the face, making Kong Chen's eyes glow.

The black man's voice was steady, and he couldn't hear the slightest change in emotion, "Who's at who's instigation?" What do you want to do? ”

Kong Chen's anger rose, "Bold, I am Kong Chen, the county lieutenant of Shen County, and I am an official of the imperial court, do you dare to beat me, don't you want to die?" ”

Syllable!

With another slap, Kong Chen fell to the ground, bleeding from the corner of his mouth.

"Who's at your behest? What do you want to do? ”

"You..."

Syllable!

"Bold! You... ”

Syllable!

"I..."

Syllable!

。。。

Lying on the ground, Kong Chen cried sadly, thinking that I was a dignified master, and I didn't want to suffer such a shame today.

"Who's at your behest? What do you want to do? ”

A flat voice came, and Kong Chen's body couldn't help but tremble.

His mouth was already smashed, and the blood flowed down uncontrollably, and the pain pierced his heart, making Kong Chen involuntarily clench his fists.

"Stop fighting, I say I'll say!"

He sat up slowly, tears still hanging from the corners of his eyes. "This official received a tip-off that the Cross Slope Inn harbored several Jiangyang thieves, and I took someone to arrest them. I have already reported this matter to the county master, I don't believe you can verify it! ”

"Who gave you the tip?"

"It's a second-rate son in the county."

Syllable!

The slap came, Kong Chen fell to the ground, and he shouted excitedly: "Why are you still hitting me? ”

"I'm not happy to hear this lie, make up a new one!"

Kong Chen clenched his fists and said loudly: "What I said is true, it is true!" ”

"Then I don't like it either, make up a one I like!"

Kong Chen felt that he was about to go crazy, he gritted his teeth, if he hadn't been tied up, he would have to beat the man in black to death.

His eyes were stared at for a long time, and he fell down, and said in a low voice: "The shopkeeper of Feng Ji Salt Shop gave me 200 taels of silver, and asked me to charge the people in the Cross Slope Inn with a crime at will and arrest them all." ”

"That's right! Say something I like to hear, and I want to hear it, so that I don't suffer so much. ”

The man in black slowly approached, he tore off a corner of Kong Chen's clothes, and gently wiped the blood from his mouth.

Through the faint light of the fire, I finally saw the face of the man in black clearly.

It was a snow-white mask, smooth in surface and pale in color, unknown what it was made of, without any signs, except for two eyes.

Kong Chen suddenly shivered and lowered his head.

Those eyes looked at Kong Chen, as if they were looking at a pile of rotten meat, numb and emotionless.

The figure in the distance shook a little, and another man in black walked over, the same size, the same mask, the same eyes, and he was carrying an unconscious person in his hand.

Kong Chen recognized it at a glance, it was one of his subordinates, named Cao Yan.

He was suddenly glad that he had told the truth in the end.

The man in black put down Cao Yan and picked him up instead.

Kong Chen shouted in fright, "What are you going to do? I've said it all, I'm telling the truth! ”

No response!

The man in black carried him away and walked away, and in the shaking, Kong Chen vaguely saw that the man in black before stretched out his hand again, repeatedly slapping Cao Yan's mouth.

Smack, smack, smack!

The sound faded away, and the only sound in my ears was the fierce sound of torches.

After walking for a while, the man in black suddenly put him down, and Kong Chen was stunned as soon as he glanced left and right.

In this open space, hundreds of people gathered.

Half of the black-clad men were watching as they were writing, and nearly twenty others were lying unconscious on the ground.

In the firelight, he could clearly see that there was blood flowing from the corners of everyone's mouths.

Kong Chen shuddered and didn't dare to look at it anymore.

A man in black handed him a wooden board, two pieces of paper, and a pen.

"Write a letter to home! Think about how much food you can give, if it's appropriate, you will be released back when you get the food! ”

Kong Chen was overjoyed, "This is true. ”

The man in black ignored it.

didn't get an answer, Kong Chen was a little embarrassed, looked at the things in his hand, and said, "You didn't give me ink?" ”

The man in black stretched out his hand and pointed to the side.

Kong Chen turned his head to look and saw that everyone was writing, dipped the corners of their mouths with a brush.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, this is for them to write a blood book! How much hatred, how much hatred, so ruthless?

The night wind howled, torches hunted, and no one spoke.

Kong Chen didn't want to speak, his mouth hurt too much.

He hesitated for a long time with the pen, and finally dipped it into the corner of his mouth in pain.

He began to write a letter, and the beginning was quite smooth, but when it came to the ransom, he was a little hesitant.

At this moment, a man in black suddenly walked out, picked up an unconscious person and walked into the distance, and after a while, he came back with Cao Yan, who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth.

Kong Chen looked at Cao Yan's frightened and panicked expression, and a sense of comical suddenly welled up in his heart.

These people looked at him just now, and they must have felt this way.

Cao Yan was given a wooden board and pen and paper, and was also asked to write a letter.

Kong Chen was a little puzzled, if he remembered correctly, this subordinate should not know a single big character.

Out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't even hold a pen, he held the brush tightly, and he didn't know what to draw on the paper.

The man in black ignored it.

This made it difficult for Kong Chen to understand.

Time passed little by little, the moon gradually turned westward, the number of unconscious people on the ground gradually decreased, and the people who wrote letters with blood from the corners of their mouths finally gathered fifty.

Kong Chen had already finished writing, and he noticed that the injuries of these people seemed to be mild and severe.

There is a particularly serious one, the head has been beaten into a pig's head, and even the limbs seem to be somewhat deformed.

Two of them didn't have any injuries on their bodies, so when they wrote letters, they still had to bite the tip of their tongues with tangled faces and spurt blood.

There were about a dozen of them under him, all of them here.

The rest of the people were also divided into several groups, and Kong Chen recognized one of them, which seemed to be the tax collector of the county government.

Seeing that he was also scratching his heart and writing letters, Kong Chen was a little in a trance.

It turned out that it was all because of the trouble at the Cross Slope Inn, and he suddenly hated the shopkeeper Feng, isn't it okay to find guilt.

Just as he was thinking about it, the men in black suddenly moved.

Obviously, no one signaled, but all the people in black moved in unison, like arms and fingers, they couldn't describe this feeling, they were more like one heart and one body.

Seeing that all the people in black were facing one direction, Kong Chen knew that the main lord was coming!